REPORT. IN SENATE, March 2, 1843. The joint select committee to which were referred the applications respecting the Penobscot Boom Corporation, have attended to their duty, and submit the following REPORT: It was shown to the committee that a boom of the general character of the works constructed by the corporation, is necessary for the preservation and protection of the great lumber interests on the Penobscot river, from immense hazard and loss. The booms of this company are upon an extensive scale, requiring a large expenditure of money, as will appear by the report of the commissioners appointed by the Governor pursuant to an act passed at the last session of the Legislature. The booms were undertaken in 1832, and a boom in another place costing several thousand dollars, abandoned, in compliance with the request of the log owners, from the conviction that the security of their property demanded these erections; and, as an inducement to procure them, they proposed a more liberal rate of boomage than that which is now received, and for a period which might extend several years beyond the present time. It was not questioned but that the booms of the corporation are so constructed as to afford full protection to the lumber upon the river, securing all logs which the owner does not see fit himself to pick up; and in times of freshet and danger, preserving the whole lumbering interest from that exposure and loss, to which it otherwise would be subjected. The more effectually to ensure this security, the whole corporation is placed, to an extent, under the control of a committee appointed by the Executive of the State, and is bound to make any expenditure determined by the committee to be necessary; and not only the REPORT. IN SENATE, March 2, 1843. The joint select committee to which were referred the applications respecting the Penobscot Boom Corporation, have attended to their duty, and submit the following REPORT: It was shown to the committee that a boom of the general character of the works constructed by the corporation, is necessary for the preservation and protection of the great lumber interests on the Penobscot river, from immense hazard and loss. The booms of this company are upon an extensive scale, requiring a large expenditure of money, as will appear by the report of the commissioners appointed by the Governor pursuant to an act passed at the last session of the Legislature. The booms were undertaken in 1832, and a boom in another place costing several thousand dollars, abandoned, in compliance with the request of the log owners, from the conviction that the security of their property demanded these erections; and, as an inducement to procure them, they proposed a more liberal rate of boomage than that which is now received, and for a period which might extend several years beyond the present time. It was not questioned but that the booms of the corporation are so constructed as to afford full protection to the lumber upon the river, securing all logs which the owner does not see fit himself to pick up; and in times of freshet and danger, preserving the whole lumbering interest from that exposure and loss, to which it otherwise would be subjected. The more effectually to ensure this security, the whole corporation is placed, to an extent, under the control of a committee appointed by the Executive of the State, and is bound to make any expenditure determined by the committee to be necessary; and not only the |